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prague is covered in snow.
Jan. 13th, 2010 07:22 pmI was all cranky at easy jet, as they cancelled our flight from vienna to gatwick but insisted they couldn't refund my gatwick to edinburgh flight as they "don't sell as connections" but only individual flights, and bugger you if you have to buy two flights because there is no direct flight. And then they cancelled the gatwick to edinburgh flight anyway! refund woo!
(am ignoring the fact that they cancelled the flight on the day of the flight. does that mean it was for the weather? does that mean it will be intensely difficult to get to edinburgh tmw? and our new flight might also be cancelled?
have decided IT WILL BE FINE.)
Today it was Mum's birthday. So we visited Kutna Hora, where they had a chapel and a pile of skeletons, and said, hey, we can make a chandelier out of these bones. So very unlike the modern mindset. They also have a gothic cathedral and an italian restaurant. photos when i have uploaded them.
we took an express train from Prague, and in the only stop between there and there, three czechs came in to our compartment. they didn't have much english, and we have virtually no czech, but apparently the fact that we come from Australia, where it is summer, was the FUNNIEST THING EVER. And then they put a statue of the virgin mary to our faces so we could kiss it goodbye.
When we got out of the train, an american woman came and asked if we speak english, and if we knew how to get into town. yes to the first and i think so to the second, and so she came with us to the bone chapel and to the old town and then back to prague. was nice to speak to someone new! also i gave her my german stamps that i forgot to affix to postcards and send.
I have many postcards, some even written, and maybe i will remember to buy stamps and send things from edinburgh. but maybe not! you'll never know.
tommorrow i will be in an english (well, mostly) speaking country! and i will no longer feel like an idiot tourist who expects everyone to speak english! hurrah!
(am ignoring the fact that they cancelled the flight on the day of the flight. does that mean it was for the weather? does that mean it will be intensely difficult to get to edinburgh tmw? and our new flight might also be cancelled?
have decided IT WILL BE FINE.)
Today it was Mum's birthday. So we visited Kutna Hora, where they had a chapel and a pile of skeletons, and said, hey, we can make a chandelier out of these bones. So very unlike the modern mindset. They also have a gothic cathedral and an italian restaurant. photos when i have uploaded them.
we took an express train from Prague, and in the only stop between there and there, three czechs came in to our compartment. they didn't have much english, and we have virtually no czech, but apparently the fact that we come from Australia, where it is summer, was the FUNNIEST THING EVER. And then they put a statue of the virgin mary to our faces so we could kiss it goodbye.
When we got out of the train, an american woman came and asked if we speak english, and if we knew how to get into town. yes to the first and i think so to the second, and so she came with us to the bone chapel and to the old town and then back to prague. was nice to speak to someone new! also i gave her my german stamps that i forgot to affix to postcards and send.
I have many postcards, some even written, and maybe i will remember to buy stamps and send things from edinburgh. but maybe not! you'll never know.
tommorrow i will be in an english (well, mostly) speaking country! and i will no longer feel like an idiot tourist who expects everyone to speak english! hurrah!
